The 2022 Abra Cadavers game is located here.
• Get a Single by reading one book.
The Big Shot by Frank L. Packard
• Get a Double by reading two books by a second author
The Corpse in the Waxworks by John Dickson Carr
The Mad Hatter Mystery by John Dickson Carr
• Get a Triple by reading three books by a third author
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
The Mystery of Marie Rogét by Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
• Get a Home Run by reading four books by a fourth author.
The Case of the Lame Canary by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Crimson Kiss by Erle Stanley Gardner
Fingers of Fong by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Valley of Little Fears by Erle Stanley Gardner
• You have hit for the Cycle once you complete a single, double, triple, AND a home run.
• Get a Foul by giving up on a foul one with the dreaded DNF (Did Not Finish)
The Martian by Andy Weir
• Get a Bunt by reading a short story.
The Image in the Mirror by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Get a Walk by listening to an audiobook
Death Blew Out the Match Crime Club radio dramatization
• Get a Stolen Base by stealing (reading) a book which has been submitted to any of our previous or current challenges - in any year - by someone else.
With One Stone by Frances & Richard Lockridge, read by Bev Hankins in 2021.
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Strike Out when a book strikes out of your house (out to the library, loaned out, mailed out, given away, sold, thrown out, audiobook taken outdoors for a walk, book taken elsewhere to read, etc.)